About the Course

Business Administration - International Trade

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Business Administration - International Trade

Course Presentation

The Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a Focus on International Trade at UNESC prepares professionals to operate in a competitive, technological, and borderless environment. Here, students learn to understand how organizations function from a global perspective, developing skills to plan, negotiate, and manage international operations ethically, sustainably, and innovatively.

With a 3,000-hour in-person curriculum that can be completed in four years, the program combines management, economics, and international relations in a formative journey marked by practical experience and integration with the market. The curriculum is designed to connect teaching, research, and extension, promoting real experiences in export, import, finance, and global logistics, in an academic environment that encourages leadership, initiative, and strategic vision.

Differentiators

  • UNESC stands out by offering a contemporary education connected to the trends of global trade and the digital economy. Here, learning goes far beyond the classroom: students experience real situations, participate in practical projects, and connect with companies and institutions operating in the international arena;
  • From the first semesters, students have access to practical experience laboratories and participate in integrative projects that simulate export and import operations, strengthening their analytical and decision-making skills. The program offers extensive opportunities for internationalization and academic mobility, with multicultural experiences and exchange programs at foreign universities;
  •  Integration with the innovation ecosystem — including startups, technology-based companies, and partner institutions — broadens the professional horizon of students, bringing academic training closer to the realities of the global market;
  • The faculty consists of masters and doctors with solid professional and academic experience, active in areas such as international business, finance, global marketing, and corporate governance. Digital fluency, the use of active and agile methodologies, and state-of-the-art infrastructure ensure a dynamic, collaborative learning process connected to contemporary demands;
  • Recognized for its academic excellence and outstanding results in national assessments, the program maintains high indicators in ENADE and CPC, establishing itself as a regional and national reference in training professionals for international trade;
  • Therefore, UNESC is the ideal place for those who wish to build a solid international career, combining innovation, ethics, and sustainability with the practice of global management.

What will you learn?

  • In the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a Focus on International Trade at UNESC, you will learn to think strategically and act globally. The program is designed to develop the technical, analytical, and behavioral skills essential for those who wish to operate in the world of international trade, connecting management, economics, finance, and global relations.
  • You will also learn to structure export and import operations, mastering the Brazilian Customs System, operational dispatch procedures, economic integration policies, and international agreements. The courses on Export Systematics, Import Systematics, Internationalization Strategies, and Export and Import Laboratories transform theory into practice, allowing students to simulate real operations and experience the day-to-day of global trade.

Job Market

The international business landscape is experiencing a moment of expansion and transformation — and the professional trained by UNESC is ready to be a leader in this movement.
With an analytical, creative, and ethical profile, graduates of the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a Focus on International Trade are prepared to work in multinational companies, financial institutions, government agencies, chambers of commerce, ports, logistics operators, startups, and international consultancies.

The program prepares students to understand global economic trends, the interdependence between markets, and the impacts of emerging technologies on supply and value chains. This strategic vision allows graduates to assume prominent positions in international operations management, import and export, finance, and digital trade.

With the skills acquired throughout their education — international negotiation, executive leadership, global governance, and sustainable innovation — UNESC professionals are recognized for their ability to generate results and turn challenges into opportunities, operating fluently in an interconnected and competitive world.

More than just earning a diploma, UNESC graduates achieve a global career positioning, prepared to be transformative leaders in international economic relations.

Subjects

Fundamentals of Marketing
Organization, Systems and Methods
Formative Laboratory I: Our Place and the Future
Quantitative Methods
General Theory of Administration
International Marketing
International Negotiation and Conflict Management
Business Ecosystem Development
Fundamentals of Management for International Business
Statistics
Environmental and Quality Management
Human Resource Management
International Logistics
General Introduction to Law
Financial Mathematics
Customs Legislation
Branding
Internationalization Strategies
Operations Management
Financial and Investment Analysis
Export Systematics
Emerging Topics: Marketing
Fundamentals of Economics
Export Laboratory
Ethics and Compliance
Business Accounting
Agile Project Management Methodologies
Emerging Topics: Human Resource Management
Retail and Service Management
Controllership
Corporate Finance
Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence
Import Systematics
Emerging Topics: Production and Operations Management
Labor and Tax Law
Strategic Management
Corporate Governance and Succession Process
Formative Laboratory: Creativity and Entrepreneurial Culture
Import Laboratory
Emerging Topics: Finance
Academic Production I
Business Consulting
Academic Production II
Formative Lab III: Elective
International Business Lab
Personal Branding

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Small Business Management
Service Management
Strategic Management
Public Administration
Investment Analysis
Associativism
Coaching
Accounting for Managers
Contextualization - Case Studies
E-Business
E-Commerce
Brazilian Economy
Technical Spanish
Geopolitics
Project Management
Environmental and Quality Management
Process Management
Technical English
Technical English
Computer Science
Brazilian Sign Language
Budgeting
Operations Research
Business Plans
Text Production and Interpretation
Text Production for Monographic Works
Human Resources
Social Responsibility
Business Simulation
Applied Computing Systems in Administration

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The Central Library Prof. Eurico Back – UNESC, has the mission to "Promote quality information retrieval, focusing on the development of teaching, research, and extension activities, associating technology and humanized service."

With free access to the shelves, the Library is located in an area of 2,688.50 m². The service hours are from Monday to Friday, from 7:30 AM to 10:00 PM, and on Saturdays from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

The collection of books, periodicals, and multimedia, as well as the services of technical processing, consultation of the local database, registration of periodicals, loan, renewal, return, and reservation are fully computerized by the PERGAMUM Program, which was developed by the Data Processing Center of PUC/Paraná - PUCPR. The location of the works is organized by author, title, subject, or keyword.

The Collection Development Policy of the Central Library aims to define and implement criteria for the development of collections and the updating of the collection.

The Library's collection consists of 82,668 titles and 167,836 volumes of books, has 63 subscriptions to periodicals, and access to more than 100 databases through the CAPES Periodicals Portal and other publicly accessible databases. It has a subscription to Minha Biblioteca, a database with over 11,000 e-books, in addition to the UpToDate and RT-Online databases.

Online Periodicals

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Coordination

Meet the course coordinators:

  • Thiago Henrique Almino Francisco
    Coordinator
  • Edson Firmino Ribeiro
    Deputy Coordinator

Any questions?

Contact the course office

Phone (48) 3431.2635

Ratings Ranking

Ranking
3 grade CPC
Ranking
4 grade CC

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